Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

If you're a fan of Rush, there's a song of theirs from 1975 called "I Think I'm Going Bald." I've heard various ve...

When I was a kid (I think I was about four years old), my mother took me to a toy store, and I saw something I wanted. For whatever reason, ...

Back in the 1990s, when I was an instructor at Emerson College in Boston, they needed someone to be the Jewish chaplain; our previous Jewish...

I've never met Ayanna Pressley, but I did write an encyclopedia entry about her for the African-American National Biography.  She's ...

For the past several days, I was in Toronto attending a conference about the impact of the media on our lives-- a topic I'll blog about ...

I was sitting in my office earlier this evening, staring at my computer, and feeling really frustrated.  No, it wasn't because I had to ...

I have a friend who sincerely believes our current problems all began when the Supreme Court got rid of mandatory school prayer back in 1962...